dido

Hence Virgil, through the mouth of Dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying:

Here all is literal, even to the severed arm of Wolfe, and the urn which held the ashes of Queen Dido.*

There was the old Dido, she put in here about two years ago, and sent one watch off on liberty; they never were heard of again for a week--the natives swore they didn't know where they were--and only three of them ever got back to the ship again, and one with his face damaged for life, for the cursed heathens tattooed a broad patch clean across his figure-head.

Mary then looked at him as Dido looked at AEneas in the Elysian fields, fierce and disdainful.

Laurie is as full of didoes as usual, and turns the house upside down frequent, but he heartens the girls, so I let em hev full swing.

"Of you and against you I ask it," said Don Quixote; "for I am not marble, nor are you brass, nor is it now ten o'clock in the morning, but midnight, or a trifle past it I fancy, and we are in a room more secluded and retired than the cave could have been where the treacherous and daring AEneas enjoyed the fair soft-hearted Dido. But give me your hand, senora; I require no better protection than my own continence, and my own sense of propriety; as well as that which is inspired by that venerable head-dress;" and so saying he kissed her right hand and took it in his own, she yielding it to him with equal ceremoniousness.

whip-hand over Holdsworthy if he ever tried to cut up any didoes.

As poor little Dido was jerked away by the unsympathetic maid, and Purple-gaiters essayed in vain to plead his cause, Polly said to herself, with a smile and a sigh; "How early the old story begins!"

"A nice come-down for you, I must say, that was raised straight an' right, a-cuttin' up didoes with a lodger."

"I had no arms," murmured Aramis, as wild and terrible in his wrath as the shade of Dido. And then, without touching Fouquet's hand, he turned his head aside, and stepped back a pace or two.

So there will be two Didos in this version, one sung by soprano Wendy Nieper, the other danced by Birmingham Kathak star Sonia Sabri.

Retellings and invocations of Didos story in Renaissance drama are characterized by a language of seeing, burning, and dying, relating both to Dido's supposed view of Aeneas sailing away from her and Aeneas's view of her pyre as he further recedes.